The Golden and Ghoulish Age of the Gibbet in Britain
This book is the first academic study of the post-mortem practice of gibbeting ('hanging in chains'), since the nineteenth century. Gibbeting involved placing the executed body of a malefactor in an iron cage and suspending it from a tall post. A body might remain in the gibbet for many de...
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| Format: | Electronic Book Chapter |
| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan
2017
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| Series: | Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
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A1234.567 |
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